Seminole Chief King-Payne, the grandfather of Seminole Chief Micanopy, established and united the Seminoles as a people during the 18th century. King-Payne married a Yamassee Indian woman, who was King-Payne’s slave, and the mother of his son, the late Seminole Chief Payne, whose origin from the Yamassee stock was distinctly marked in the darkness of his complexion. The Aboriginal Seminole Chief Micanopy, like his grandfather King Payne, was described by European colonizers as very black. Yet, their chief line and family descended from the aboriginal Mvskoke tribes who became the Seminole lineage.”
Black Americans Are Aboriginal Americans
